The territorial delegate of the AEMET in Extremadura, Marcelino Núñez, has today made public the climate balance of the last winter season and the forecasts for the spring, which begins on Monday, March 20 at 22:24 hours.
The delegate of the State Meteorological Agency has pointed out that the last quarter has been humid in terms of rainfall recorded in the region and the sixth warmest in temperatures of the reference period (1991-2020).
Precipitation
The average rainfall for the entire region during the winter has been: 279.4 liters/m², being higher than the reference value for this quarter: 156.3 litres/m². We have therefore had, and on average for the whole of Extremadura, a significant surplus of 123.1 liters/m². In other words, in this quarter the rainfall represented 179% of the reference value.
The December-January-February quarter of 2022-23 was the 8th wettest of the reference period (1991-2020), in Extremadura.
The balance of accumulated rainfall during the hydrological year (from 1-October-2022 to 28-February-2023) has also been classified as humid. An average of 417.1 litres/m² has been recorded, the reference being 318.6 litres/m², that is, the rainfall recorded in the aforementioned period has resulted in a surplus of 98.5 litres/m². The precipitation of what we have been in the hydrological year 2022-2023 has therefore accounted for 131% of the reference value.
Temperatures
In Extremadura, the average temperature of the December-January-February quarter of 2022-23 has been: 9.5°C, while the average reference temperature is: 8.6ºC, which means that we have had a positive anomaly of 0.9ºC with respect to the average value that allows us to classify this quarter as very warm in terms of temperatures.
The December-January-February quarter of 2022 was the 6th warmest quarter of the reference period (1991-2020).
Spring forecast
For the months of April-May-June 2023 in Extremadura:
- There is a greater chance that the average temperature of the quarter April-May-June will be normal or warmer than the reference values.
- There is a greater chance that the cumulative rainfall of the April-May-June quarter will be normal or greater than the reference values.